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KYLIE'S STALKER TERROR
Kylie Minogue calls in police after stalker terrorised her at home for weeks
The man, believe to be in his 40s, buzzed the intercom to the Aussie singer's house for hours on end
PETRIFIED Kylie Minogue had to call in police after a stalker laid siege to her home.
Worried neighbours said he had hounded the pop queen for weeks.
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A source said Kylie, 50, was “very shaken” after last week’s ordeal in London.
One neighbour said he appeared to have launched a “sustained campaign” against her.
He went on: “It came to a head when the man repeatedly pressed the intercom button to her home for hours on end last week and refused to leave.
“Kylie was quite upset and called in police. They spoke to Kylie, and also the suspect in the street for quite a while.”
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A female resident said they warned Kylie about him last month after he was spotted on their street in West London.
She recalled: “A weirdo guy was lurking around. He went door to door asking people where Kylie lived.
"I don’t think anybody alerted the police but we gave her a heads-up because it wasn’t normal behaviour.”
Another said the raincoat-wearing man, said to be in his 40s with a European accent, “just kept saying ‘Kylie’ over and over”.
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Cops issued the man with a first-time formal warning last Wednesday afternoon, but did not arrest him.
Kylie was “shaken” and believed to have since taken extra security measures.
A source close to her said last night: “Obviously she was very shaken by what has happened, as anyone would be, but she has taken the sensible steps.
“She has always had security arrangements and people who she trusts nearby especially for when she goes out, but she will of course be looking at other options.”
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The Met Police said: “Both parties were spoken to and the matter was dealt with by the man being issued with a first-instance harassment warning.”
Kylie is currently in a relationship with GQ magazine creative director Paul Solomons.
She shot to fame in Neighbours before launching a hugely successful pop career.
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Kylie Minogue's years of threats
KYLIE has been shadowed and threatened by obsessives for years.
Before the latest incident, the most recent was in 2012, when she revealed a “deluded weirdo” sent her threatening messages over Twitter. She called in police but nobody was arrested.
In 2010 an Australian newspaper published pictures of a man who frequently turned up at her parents’ Melbourne home carrying flowers and an engagement ring.
A year earlier Kylie was one of a number of celebrities targeted by a fixated former postman.
Mark Taylor, then 46, sent a string of lewd letters to her and other female stars including Kylie’s sister Danni, Jennifer Aniston and Fearne Cotton.
Taylor, of Beckenham, South London, was eventually jailed for four months for harassing former Big Brother winner Kate Lawler. He was also banned from contacting Kylie.
In 2003 Kylie received more than 700 threatening letters to her home and the West London offices of her record company. They bore a West Country postmark and became increasingly aggressive and disturbed.
In one, the writer threatened to kill the Aussie star and perform depraved acts on her. Kylie’s management team reported the harassment at Fulham police station but, again, the menacing oddball was never caught.
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